{"id":698032,"date":"2026-05-27T22:30:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:30:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698032\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T22:30:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T22:30:11","slug":"75-year-old-man-struck-in-alleged-vancouver-vehicle-ramming-dies-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/698032\/","title":{"rendered":"75-year-old man struck in alleged Vancouver vehicle ramming dies: police"},"content":{"rendered":"

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A 75-year-old man who was struck while riding his motorized scooter in what Vancouver police say was a “vehicle ramming” earlier this month has died of his injuries.<\/p>\n

The incident happened around 5:30 a.m. PT on May 15 in the city’s West End, and left the victim with critical injuries.<\/p>\n

Two police officers, one of them a recruit constable on his second day of work, were also injured. <\/p>\n

On Wednesday, police confirmed the man had died on May 24. <\/p>\n

Police previously said they were called to the scene following reports of someone “driving erratically” near Comox and Broughton streets, striking a variety of objects including the Nelson Park dog area.<\/p>\n

Multiple witnesses told police they had to scramble to evade the vehicle.<\/p>\n

\"PoliceFirst responders gathered around an incident in Vancouver’s West End neighbourhood by Bute and Comox streets on May 15. (Cecelia Armstrong\/CBC)<\/p>\n

Investigators say the suspect was finally stopped after he rammed a police cruiser and flipped his own vehicle. <\/p>\n

Police are investigating mental health and drug use as possible factors in the incident. <\/p>\n

Tadd Bali, 34, is charged with four counts of dangerous operation of a motor vehicle causing bodily harm.<\/p>\n

Police said they are now submitting evidence to prosecutors for consideration of additional charges. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Listen to this article Estimated 2 minutes The audio version of this article is generated by AI-based technology.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":671797,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-698032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/671797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}